Today, I want to look at this thought, "Jerusalem, a Burdensome Stone." My text is Zechariah 12:1-3, where we see, "The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the …
God’s children, those born again by the Spirit, have not just been given a one-way ticket to Glory, but have been given a two-way ticket, and are coming back with Christ in power and great glory to the earth.
Although now long out of print, “The Sunday School Times” once published an interesting story about a Christian woman who was talking with a Christian man about their future in Christ. She said to him with excitement, “I have taken a single ticket to Glory, and do not intend to come back.” Whereupon the Christian man replied: “Then, you are going to miss a lot. I have taken a return ticket, for I am not only going to meet Christ in Glory, but I am coming back with him in power and great glory to the earth.”
François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian and renowned defender of the Calvinistic (Reformed) As part of my series of replies to Calvinist Francois Turretin, I provide the biblical basis for the indefectibility of the [Catholic] Church, and address objections.
Since religion is natural to human beings, it will persist even after formal religious institutions decline. So says Philip Jenkins, drawing on his research into "lived religion." But can there be a non-institutional Christianity? What would that look like? Jesus, however, founded a church.